It is especially known to be a favorite place for king Louis XIV. This amazing castle was built in 16th century and it was a proof of the squandering nature of most of French kings. It contains 440 rooms and, when horses were used for traveling, it could host 1200 horses.

This amazing architectural structure with huge historical value is today owned by French government who bought it back from an Italian Ducal family of Parma in 1932. Despite the fact that almost 500 years have passed since it was built, this building still remains stable and glorious as it was in time of its construction. Photos via flickr .

Local people are known to give sacral value to anything unusual so it was similar with this rock. They have melted the gold (despite the fact that majority of people in Burma are very poor) and covered whole rock with it and gave it name Golden Rock. They even declared it third most sacred place in Burma.

On the top of the rock they built a little pagoda which is also covered with pure gold. This nice example of balance in nature really looks astonishing. The rock looks like it could fell every moment but in fact it is pretty stable .

One of such parks called “park Karlshorst” has been built in Berlin where visitors can find miniature versions of some of the most known buildings from Berlin and Brandenburg.

You can see a few of photos here taken in this park. If you decide to visit it yo can see there miniature versions of the Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag, Pergamon Museum and plenty of other buildings from Berlin and Brandenburg.

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Despite the fact that in there were some efforts to build an electricity power plant in this place which would certainly ruin this beautiful feature, Gullfoss waterfall has survived and now it is protected area.

Gullfoss waterfall, together with neighboring Pingvellir and geysers of Haukadalur forms the place which is known as a Golden Circle and is one of the most visited touristic destinations in Iceland.

Those rocks are formed as a consequence of strong tidal forces for centuries. The most interesting part of those rocks, the base, is covered by the water twice per day but it is possible to see them in full shape during the low tide.

During the low tide, Hopewell Rocks look like they are from another world. Their almost impossible shape make them to look like they are actually made by humans. Some of them look like huge heads with very big noses.

Images sources : EverySpoon

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]]> http://www.travelet.com/2010/05/hopewell-rocks-beautiful-example-of-tidal-erosion/feed/ 0 http://www.travelet.com/2010/05/bizarre-and-beautiful-tufa-towers-of-mono-lake-in-california/ http://www.travelet.com/2010/05/bizarre-and-beautiful-tufa-towers-of-mono-lake-in-california/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 09:38:17 +0000 travelet http://www.travelet.com/?p=914 Mono Lake is one of the most beautiful natural resorts where you should go if you are visiting California.  One of the most interesting and attractive things which can be seen in Mono Lake are tufa towers which became visible when the water level of the lake fell because of higher demand for water use amongst people who lived in neighbor.

Tufa towers are actually rocks which were formed of carbonate materials. When water level in Mono Lake fell, it left those beautiful towers visible. People who come and see them and don’t know the way how they are formed, will feel like they are in some alien-like environment because of pretty strange and logically impossible shapes of those rocks.

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